Pondering a pope and the gender divide
Some cardinals, including Boston’s Sean P. O’Malley, have expressed a desire to open new leadership opportunities for women.
As Obama, Senate collide, courts caught short
The partisan deadlock in Washington hits much more than budgets. More than ever, judicial picks are ideological cannon fodder.
As housing, job markets improve, homeowners spend on remodeling
Business is surging for area contractors and others tied to the construction industry.
Harvard secretly searched deans’ e-mail
Administrators secretly searched accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s cheating case.
Decades after the Gardner heist, police focus on guard
For the first time, former museum night watchman Richard Abath discussed publicly what happened.
Special section
The 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2013
Artists, entrepreneurs, an activist, and an actress all made the Globe’s eighth annual list of tastemakers.
Man having a beer in every Mass. town to benefit cancer research
Todd Ruggere of Grafton hopes to visit all 351 towns and cities in Massachusetts to nail down donations for Dana-Farber.
Sunday baseball notes
Will advanced testing change baseball?
Baseball’s enhanced drug testing both for HGH and testosterone may be changing the way owners view long-term commitments.
Globe exclusives
Sports
Bruins 3, Flyers 0
Bruins blank Flyers behind total team effort
Tuukka Rask stopped 23 shots, and Tyler Seguin, Chris Kelly and Daniel Paille scored as the Bruins beat the lifeless Flyers, 3-0.
Metro
Plum Island residents assess storm’s devastation
A severe winter storm that battered the Massachusetts shore Friday and dumped 2 feet of snow on some inland communities hit Plum Island especially hard.
Columnists
Nation & World
Egyptians rampage over court verdicts
Soccer fans were furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences against 21 alleged rioters were confirmed.
Politics
Democrats face rough Senate terrain
After a surprising string of victories last fall, Democrats now must defend 21 seats in the midterm election.
Business
Regulations make pay data tough to ferret out
Like Northeast Utilities, many companies — such as credit unions and banks — do not report their executives’ pay when possible.
Arts
Cable talk hosts loosen up
The nighttime talk-show alternatives have been building across the past decade, away from the crushing Nielsen pressures that can turn a comic into a neurotic megalomaniac.
Travel
Check in
Delamar Southport in Southport, Conn.
The Delamar Southport, a 44-room boutique hotel, straddles the boundary between New York chic and country elegant, embodying both with aplomb.
Books
Book review
‘Out of Order’ by Sandra Day O’Connor
At 82, retired justice O’Connor has published a short volume with 12 chapters, each dealing with some aspect of the court’s history or practice.
Globe Insiders
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Insider videography sessionGet tips on shooting video from award-winning Globe videographer Darren Durlach.